Panabachia cryptica, Muñoz-Tobar & Caterino, 2025

Panabachia cryptica sp. nov.

Figs 7 D View Figure 7 , 8 D View Figure 8

Type material.

Holotype • ♂ ( QCAZ-I -280217 ): “ ECUADOR: Chimborazo, -2.18775, -78.5210, Atillo , 3501 m, 7 JUL 2016, S. Muñoz & A. Romero, Ex. Berlese ” / “ Muñoz DNA voucher, SIMT 287 , Morphosp. Atillo 5 ”; deposited in QCAZI GoogleMaps . Paratypes ( 1 ♂, 2 ♀) • same data as holotype ( SIMT 285 to 286 ) ( QCAZ-I -280218 to 280220) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Head broad, with vertexal foveae deep, non-setose, closer to eyes on each side than to each other; vertexal sulcus present on the posterior portion of the head between vertexal fovea; two gular foveae present; eyes protuberant but not large, diameter ~ 2 / 3 postocular genal width; antennae rather short, antennomere III slightly longer than wide, IV – VI beadlike, rounded, VII – IX increasingly transverse, shorter, X short, rounded, transverse, XI ~ 3 × as long as X, rounded, with setose depression on inner apex, no antennal segment differences between male and female; male pronotum (Fig. 7 D View Figure 7 ) approx. as long as wide, with sides more or less evenly rounded; posterior 1 / 2 of disk evenly rounded but with deep, small median fovea; anteromedian portion of disk with deep, transversely ovoid depression, with pair of setal tufts at posterolateral corners, and small transverse tuft of setae within; anterior margin of median depression produced posterad forming narrow rim over anterior portion of depression; lateral portion of pronotal disk with deep, round depression slightly posterolaterad median depression, two anteroprosternal foveae present; each elytron with four basal foveae, three foveae evenly spaced and one disjunct; discal stria absent; apical elytral stria incomplete; wings present, 3 × length of elytron; legs simple; male last sternite short, convex, weakly emarginate along apical margin, sparsely setose; male apical tergite transverse, slightly depressed in the middle. Aedeagus (Fig. 8 D View Figure 8 ) with elongate median lobe and separate accessory sclerites; parameres apparently fused to basal apodeme and to middle of median lobe, separate for basal ~ 1 / 5 of aedeagal length; median lobe narrow, with elongate ovoid basal foramen; tegmen narrowed beyond and curved laterad to obliquely truncate apex; accessory sclerites large and asymmetrical. TL 1.55–1.56, EW 0.41–0.42.

Distribution.

This species is only known from grassland and shrub páramo around the Atillo lakes, province of Chimborazo, Ecuador.

Etymology.

This species’ name refers to the partially covered male pronotal excavation.